• May 16 • POETRY READING & GAZA FUNDRAISER : Ripe Fruit
  • May 16 • POETRY READING & GAZA FUNDRAISER : Ripe Fruit

    May 16 • POETRY READING & GAZA FUNDRAISER : Ripe Fruit

    Ripe fruit is a reading series paying homage to sumood and gathering voices in anticipation of liberation. 

    Volume 1 curated by Lara Atallah

    with readings by: 
    Issam Zeibak
    Hind Shoufani
    Hazem Fahmy
    Farah Barqawi
    Shoghig Halajian

    Zines and broadsides will be sold to fundraise for the evacuation of a friend’s multi-generational family in Gaza. 
    Please support by sending what you can to @Lara-Atallah or @Kamelya-Youssef on Venmo, using the tag “storm”.

    Issam Zeibak. Writer of prose and poetry, living in Brooklyn, NY. Half Arab and other mixed descent. 

    Hind Shoufani is a multidisciplinary Palestinian filmmaker & writer. Hind has published creative essays, prose & poetry in international journals, magazines & anthologies.  She is currently attempting a Coming-Of-Middle-Age hybrid-genre lust & politics memoir, her second feature film, & some semblance of purpose & meaning in the zeitgeist."

    Hazem Fahmy is a writer and critic from Cairo. A PhD student in Middle Eastern Studies at Columbia University, he runs the literary newsletter wust el-balad, on Substack. His debut chapbook, Red//Jild//Prayer won the 2017 Diode Editions Contest. A Kundiman and Watering Hole Fellow, his writing has appeared in The Boston Review, Prairie Schooner, Mubi Notebook, Reverse Shot, and Mizna.

    Farah Barqawi is a Palestinian writer, poet, performer, educator, and feminist organizer. Her poetry and prose works have appeared in multiple languages on online platforms and in multiple anthologies, such as “Ce que la Palestine apporte au monde’’ (IMA, France, 2023) and “We Wrote in Symbols’’ (Saqi Books, UK, 2021). She is finishing her MFA in Nonfiction Creative Writing at New York University, where she teaches Creative Writing to undergraduates.

    Shoghig Halajian is a curator, writer, and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, originally from Los Angeles, who focuses on radical queer aesthetics and politics, critiques of state-sanctioned violence, and articulations of place through the lens of dispersion.


    THURSDAY MAY 16
    7:00 - 9:00 PM
    Masks highly encouraged & provided